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SECTIONAL BOOKCASE.

(No Model.) (Application filed Nov. 9, 1900.)

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JAY F. LANING, OF NORVVALK, OHIO.

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3. EGIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 667,915, dated February 12, 1901. Application filed November 9, 1900. Serial No. 35,960. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern: In operation it will be seen that when the lie it known that l, JAY F. LANING, a citimovable front is drawn out the cords 9 and zen of the United States, and a resident of 10 will rotate the drum and coil up the spring Nm'walk, county of Huron, State of Ohio, have therein upon the central pin, thus placing the 50 invented certain new and useful Improvedrum under tension, and when the front is menis in'Sectional Bookcases, of which I hereplaced in the horizontal position and released by declare the followin to be a full, clear, and the spring will uncoil and rotate the drum in exact description, such as will enable others a reverse direction, so as to rewind the cords skilled in the art to which it appertains to and pull back the front again within the case. 55 make and use the same. The movement of the front is limited out- My invention relates to improvements in wardly by means of pins 14:, shown in the sectional bookcases, and has especial referfigures as inserted in the front and arranged ence to the movable front and construction to travel in guiding-grooves 15, which do not of automatic means for withdrawing the front extend entirely to the front of the section, the 60 into the case when raised to the horizontal poclosed end of the groove forming a stop and sition. pivotal point for the pins when the front is My invention consists in the spring-actulowered into its place. ated mechanism and in the combination and Having described my invention, what I arrangement of the various parts, as hereinclaim as new, and desire to secure by Letters 65 after described, shown in the accompanying Patent, is-

drawings, and specifically pointed out in the 1. In combination with a case, a sliding claims. front operating therein, a drum journaled In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is upon said case in the rear wall, a coil-spring a section of the case from front to rear, showmounted within said drum, and suitable con- 70 ing two sections. Fig. 2 is a front view of a nections between said drum and said front small portion of the case. Fig. 3 is a top view and said drum and spring. of the rear portion of the case; and Fig. 4 is 2. The combination with a case, of a sliding a transverse section, somewhat enlarged, of front operating therein, a pin secured in the the spring-actuated drum. rear wall of the case, a drum journaled there- 75 In the views, 1 is a sect-ion of the case. on, a coil-spring secured at one extremity to 2 is the sliding front, which is adapted to said pin and at the other extremity to the said rest upon the shoulders 3 at the top of the drum, and cords arranged at either side and case when in the horizontal position, as when at the rear of the said casing and pulleys at pushed back into the casing to afford access the corners thereof over which said cords pass, 8 3,5 to the books therein. The front 2 is autothe said cords wound upon said drum, from matieally withdrawn into the case when in opposite sides thereof, and secured at their this position by means of the coiled spring 4: outer extremities to said sliding front. within the drum 5. One end of this spring In testimony whereof I have signed my is secured to a central pivot-pin 6 at 7 and name to this specification in the presence of 85 the otheris inserted into the drum at 8. Upon two subscribing witnesses.

this drum are coiled the cords 9 and 10, which pass, respectively, over the pulleys l1 and 12 JAY F. LANING. on the rear of the case and placed on each side of the drum, and thence pass to the rear edge Witnesses: of the movable front, to which they are se- FORD H. LANING,

cured at 13. ANNE J. SHELDON. 

